Friday, June 01, 2007

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-June 1, 2007

In this edition-we note the announcement of Production Suite's release date, CityBuilder and bPicture 2008 and several tips and questions about Babya software.

Tips & Questions:
As there are a lot of Babya Photo Workshop users out there and those who want to try PhotoPro, one question we get is:can BBC files be used?

The answer is no-as PhotoPro can only use Paint Shop Pro color palettes.

BabyaTV tip:
A great use for BabyaTV is for movie scoring with Apple's Logic Express or Logic Pro.

Just import the movie into Logic-it's best if you recorded a audio and video track in BabyaTV into your song project.

Although-if you only did a audio-only .MOV, your results will be different.

There you go-it's that simple.


Babya Production Suite update:
Babya bMovie Pro is a graphical tool for creating Microsoft DirectShow Editing Services timelines and editing of Babya XTL format slideshows-a major part of Production Suite

Babya bMovie has a unusual timeline production based workflow-different from other non-linear editors but is easy to use learn and quite effective.



The UI is broken down into the following parts.

1. Pull Down Menus

a. The pull down menus allow for Creating New Timelines.

b. Opening Existing Timelines

c. Saving Timelines

d. Exiting The Sample Application

2. Button Bar

3. Tree View

4. Explorer View



Toolbar
In the button bar here is a description of the buttons from left to right.

New

Open

Save

Seek To Beginning of timeline

Seek Backwards 1 second

Play Timeline

Pause Playback

Stop Playback

Seek Forwards 1 second

Seek to Ending of timeline

The Timeline


Once the timeline is loaded the timeline will appear in the left pane of the application in the tree view.



If you select an item in the tree view the properties for that item are displayed in the right pane (Read-only list view control)



Timeline Operations


Inserts/Edits/deletes are done by right clicking on the item you want to edit in the left pane.

A Contextsensitive menu will appear that will allow you to modify the timeline. A different popup menu will appear depending on the item

selected in the tree view. I.E. right clicking on the timeline will bring up the timeline menu, whereas right clicking on the group will bring up the group menu. These menus are different and will only allow you to do timeline modification that are allowed on the object selected.

The Pull down menus are for creating a new timeline, opening a existing timeline, and saving a timeline as XML file.

Babya Smart Trim
A application included with Babya bMovie Pro that trims a source clip and writes the trimmed clip to a new file using "smart recompression".

Babya Production Suite will be shipping in July.


Babya CityBuilder
Babya CityBuilder is a fun game that allows you to build your own cities.

Babya CityBuilder will be out in June.

Babya bPicture
A new version is currently in development.

That's it for this week's report